color everything else

You don’t know how to circle and you’re feeling frozen? Circle that.

You aren’t sure how much truth to bring and you’re feeling cautious? Circle that.

You suddenly feel you don’t belong and are making a grocery list in your head? Circle that. 

The invitation of circling is that you can notice and reveal whatever is actually here. No matter what is happening, however meta or forbidden or irrelevant or blameworthy, you can just notice what that is like. 

I picture a black-and-white world of stuckness, and then the “what is that like” starts to beam a tiny bit of color at a specific spot in your chest, as soon as you bring curiosity and ownership to the textures of your experience. Smoky strokes of our collective attention linger there, right at the base of your ribcage, gently grazing your life and movement. Color leaks wildly into the many nooks and crannies of contact.

Stemless is similar. You can stemless anything. 

You can stemless how weird this is, what the room is, what you are now (even when what you are is a frozen cube of not-knowing).

Unlike circling, however, stemless doesn't require you to perform ownership through words that point at your insides.

You can stemless hating the verbal paintball the other participants are playing. You can stemless everyone cornering you and stabbing your throat. You can stemless the irrelevant little bug that Maxx has become.

Instead of putting color just on one part of your own chest (“I notice there’s a slight sadness here”) stemless can pull off the at-ness by splashing color across everything else (“this is a tragedy now”).

Externalize. No need to figure anything out. Trust us to let you own it, and through that, learn your world. 

90-minute practice session beyond the paywall.